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▪ I. fashioning, vbl. n.|ˈfæʃənɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. fashion; an instance of this.
1580Baret Alv. F 161 A fashioning of a thing, formatura. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 399 The conception and fashioning of man. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. (1617) 673 Earnest exhortations..for my better fashioning unto good correspondence and agreement. a1628Preston New Covt. (1634) 337 It is the inward fashioning of every man's apprehension that makes him happy. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 35 Art and Nature had spent their excellencies in his fashioning. 1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 141 The occasional dressing of leather and fashioning of gloves. 1884Littell's Living Age CLXI. 67 A mind that ruled the fingers' fashionings.
attrib.1847Emerson Poems, Monadnoc Wks. (Bohn) I. 435 Wax their fashioning skill betrays.
b. spec. (See quot.) Also attrib., as fashioning-needle, fashioning-point.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., Fashioning-needle, one of the needles in a knitting-machine which lift loops from some of the bearded needles and transfer them to others, in order to widen or narrow the work. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Fashioning, the process of shaping the stocking-leg and foot, also the shirt-sleeve and pant-leg, and back. This is done by hand by means of small points with which some of the loops are removed to narrow the stocking or pant at the ankle..In the steam-work these fashioning points are forced through the material by pressure.
2. Style in which a thing is fashioned. Also concr.
1870F. R. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 81 Stones of Norman fashioning. 1885S. O. Jewett March Island xiv, A fair young girl of..flower-like fashioning. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xl. 261 Beehives of a rude fashioning. 1890S. J. Duncan Social Departure 412 Rich fashionings in wood and precious metals.
†3. The action or habit of following fashions (of dress). Obs. rare—1.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 173 As much Pride might be in affected Gravity, as in changeable fashioning.
▪ II. fashioning, ppl. a.|ˈfæʃənɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fashions.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 111 A fashioning or plastick spring of lifesomness. |